Torture Is As American As Apple Pie!

This direct quote and other sad profundities were delivered this evening by Pulitzer Prize winning muckraker Seymour Hersh. Sy spoke at McGill's Mount Royal Centre, presenting his "Report from Washington" lecture (as well as several extemporaneous digressions involving his many, MANY sources).

This man knows fear. From the (worse than you think) scandal at Abu Ghraib to the (frightening and possibly literal) cult of the Neo Cons to the (mildly upsetting) collapse of the press, Congress and the Constitution, it's enough to make you want to find a spider hole. Fast.

Sy was characteristically unapologetic - "I offer no hope. There's no one in the back selling uppers."